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Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Woman, Dies at 86

14 janvier 2026 à 02:06
Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed months later when Rosa Parks made history with a similar stand.

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Claudette Colvin in 1998. When she was ordered to move to the back of a bus in 1955, she refused: “History had me glued to the seat,” she said.
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